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marfig

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[SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

(Running ArchLinux in VMWare)

I'm trying to set my system clock to Europe/Lisbon unsuccessfully. I followed these steps:

Step 1. (rc.conf)

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Lisbon"

Step 2. (localtime)

$ rm /etc/localtime
$ ln -sf /us/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Lisbon /etc/localtime

Step 3. (reboot)

Result:

marfig@archway ~ $ date
Fri Aug 6 15:27:26 WEST 2010
marfig@archway ~ $ hwclock
Fri 06 Aug 2010 03:27:31 PM WEST -0.000409 seconds

Is there something wrong with /us/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Lisbon?

Last edited by marfig (2010-08-06 14:49:17)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

I don't think I follow: 15:27 is 03:27 PM.
What you think the time should be?

Last edited by karol (2010-08-06 14:43:56)

marfig

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Re: [SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

No. The time is correct. The timezone isn't. Why is it displaying Western time? (WEST)

EDIT: gah! I'm so stupid. the simple fact I wrote this prompted me to search 'west timezone' in google. This Western European Time Summer Time. The timezone is correct and I'm a fool. So sorry for this useless thread.

Last edited by marfig (2010-08-06 14:48:41)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

WEST = Western European Standard Time(zone).
Lisbon is sure in the west (of Europe) :-)

In Poland we have CEST - Central European Standard Time.

Last edited by karol (2010-08-06 14:49:45)

Inxsible

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Re: [SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

No. The time is correct. The timezone isn't. Why is it displaying Western time? (WEST)

EDIT: gah! I'm so stupid. the simple fact I wrote this prompted me to search 'west timezone' in google. This Western European Time Summer Time. The timezone is correct and I'm a fool. So sorry for this useless thread.

You should add this to the Try This thread called the "dumbest mistake you made"

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=11728

Last edited by Inxsible (2010-08-06 14:51:18)

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marfig

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Re: [SOLVED] System clock refuses to adopt my timezone

Ah, no. Not even close. Dumbest mistake was Visual Basic many years ago.

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